Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance • Hacker News Board

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by d_e_solomon » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:03 AM UTC

bkdonline wrote: post #184

originalsimba wrote: post #135

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Well you can get a VPS for $2.50/mo these days with half a gig of ram, more than enough to handle 5-15 simultaneous visitors on your average WordPress blog. The WordPress software IS free. The WordPress.com service is not, as you pay for it by attaching their domain name to yours thereby providing them free advertising. Also, there's nothing to stop you from hosting your personal blog on your personal internet connec…

How do you solve around a non static ip?

Dynamic DNS :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by KayEss » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:07 AM UTC

bkdonline wrote: post #184

originalsimba wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well you can get a VPS for $2.50/mo these days with half a gig of ram, more than enough to handle 5-15 simultaneous visitors on your average WordPress blog. The WordPress software IS free. The WordPress.com service is not, as you pay for it by attaching their domain name to yours thereby providing them free advertising. Also, there's nothing to stop you from hosting your personal blog on your personal internet connec…

How do you solve around a non static ip?

Dynamic updates. So long as you're not behind carrier NAT you can find your IP number and update a DNS record. Many DNS providers have a specific service for this, e.g. https://dyn.com/dynamic-dns/ (no affiliation, just used them many years ago for this service).

Many ISPs are switching to carrier NAT though and then you can't host as you don't have a routable IP number.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by FrozenVoid » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:19 AM UTC

Related: HN has third party customizable RSS feeds. https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by JoshMnem » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:23 AM UTC

jeofken wrote: post #189

JoshMnem wrote: post #187

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When was the last time you bought a ThinkPad? This is my third one and suspend works. The Trackpad is great, with three buttons. 24 Gb of RAM, 11+ hour battery life in Linux, and a 4-year at-home next-day repair plan. It was $1,900 including tax, shipping, and support. Macs are much more expensive for worse specs. This computer "just worked" out of the box, and there is full freedom to tinker with the system. I think…

Im actually going to make the order for a new thinkpad today, to run NixOs on. What specs and model do you have? Are there any tips, or something you wish you knew? My config reaches >€2500 quite fast.

I got a T460 with i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz.

I always research the models online before buying: " ". I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on it at the moment.

The next-day at-home support has been great. They have come to my home and replaced motherboards on the kitchen table with no questions asked.

It has two batteries, which added a little weight, but I rarely think about power outlets any more.

I can't think of anything else, but if you have any specific questions let me know.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by eecc » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:27 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #127

jwilk wrote: post #87

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But not the others: 1999 LiveJournal 1999 Blogger 2001 Movable Type 2003 WordPress

while not blog "software", one could say that the contents of an html directory exposed by, for example, http://weirdmachinehostname.university.edu/~username/ were the earliest blogs. Hand crafted HTML homepages and such.

Hmm nah, I remember “blogging” explicitly meant drafting and publishing posts directly from a website form, as opposed to crafting HTML documents and uploading them over FTP (which was what people did at the time and obviously complained about.)

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by jeofken » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:35 AM UTC

JoshMnem wrote: post #194

jeofken wrote: post #189

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Im actually going to make the order for a new thinkpad today, to run NixOs on. What specs and model do you have? Are there any tips, or something you wish you knew? My config reaches >€2500 quite fast.

I got a T460 with i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz. I always research the models online before buying: " ". I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on it at the moment. The next-day at-home support has been great. They have come to my home and replaced motherboards on the kitchen table with no questions asked. It has two batteries, which added a little weight, but I rarely think about power outlets any more. I can't think of anything else, b…

Neat! This will be my first thinkpad since ~2005.

I’ve been eyeing the X1Carbon. What made you select T460? Do you feel that it’s portable enough to bike/walk around with and use in cafes etc?

I guess what I’m really wondering is, with all different models (7 different choices in the T series, and then X and P) how can you select one? I’m in analysis paralysis.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by stevenicr » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:36 AM UTC

originalsimba wrote: post #135

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #111

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I think you're being downvoted as there is both wordpress.com (which you correctly state is a blogging platform) and then wordpress.org (the open source PHP application anyone can freely install on anything from shared hosting on up). At even a cursory glance, independent Wordpress installs vastly outnumber the number of domains hosted on wordpress.com

Well you can get a VPS for $2.50/mo these days with half a gig of ram, more than enough to handle 5-15 simultaneous visitors on your average WordPress blog. The WordPress software IS free. The WordPress.com service is not, as you pay for it by attaching their domain name to yours thereby providing them free advertising. Also, there's nothing to stop you from hosting your personal blog on your personal internet connec…

and a slightly bigger ram vps could easily add buddypress with the "BP My Home plugin" and you could give all of your family and friends their own home page profiles with whichever rss feeds they want on their own profile page. This is something I have been kicking around for a while.

This past week I've been researching ways to incorporate the blacklisting and such from a different rss aggregator plugin to give people custom weighting options within them.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by royalharsh95 » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

originalsimba wrote: post #27

Did anyone else notice how corporations like Twitter and Facebook quietly tried to kill RSS in the past 10 years? RSS is a wonderful technology with embodies the spirit of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer. I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging, because it is free and has RSS functional out of the box.

WordPress still doesn't support postgres.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by idle_processor » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:41 AM UTC

dosycorp wrote: post #175

Is this actually happening? Are there paid RSS products?

There're various freemium RSS services that cropped up after Google Reader shut down.

https://zapier.com/blog/best-rss-feed-reader-apps/ lists a few.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Post by git-stash » Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 5:42 AM UTC

I like RSS given it provides the exact stuff I want, not more, not less. Or it can also be as simple as http://www.pxlet.com which I check every day for now to get the tech news.